Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary: The ‚Science of Judaism‘ between East and West

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Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary

The ‚Science of Judaism‘ between East and West

Edited by: Tamás Turán and Carsten Wilke

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2017

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Volume 14 | Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge

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The Habsburg Empire was one of the first regions where the academic study of Judaism took institutional shape in the nineteenth century. In Hungary, scholars such as Leopold and Immanuel Löw, David Kaufmann, Ignaz Goldziher, Wilhelm Bacher, and Samuel Krauss had a lasting impact on the Wissenschaft des Judentums (“Science of Judaism”). Their contributions to Biblical, rabbinic and Semitic studies, Jewish history, ethnography and other fields were always part of a trans-national Jewish scholarly network and the academic universe. Yet Hungarian Jewish scholarship assumed a regional tinge, as it emerged at an intersection between unquelled Ashkenazi yeshiva traditions, Jewish modernization movements, and Magyar politics that boosted academic Orientalism in the context of patriotic historiography. For the first time, this volume presents an overview of a century of Hungarian Jewish scholarly achievements, examining their historical context and assessing their ongoing relevance.

Contributions by Joshua Blau, Paul B. Fenton, Ottfried Fraisse, Isaiah M. Gafni, Catherine Hézser, Géza Komoróczy, Miklós Konrád, András Kovács, Ismar Schorsch, Gábor Schweitzer, Shaul Shaked, Günter Stemberger, Mirjam Thulin, Vilmos Voigt i.a.

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Tamás Turán, The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; Carsten L. Wilke, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

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"This impressive volume describes key aspects of the development of Jewish scholarship in the Hungarian-speaking environment and the environment in which this took place. [...] This will be a basic work for many years on academic Jewish research in Hungary. It provides material for comparisons with such studies in other contexts and with other religious groups in Central Europe. It is also a fine starting point for beginning work on individuals and on subspecialties for which Hungary was (and is) noted, including folklore and Oriental studies."
Shaul Stampfer in: Religious Studies Review 43.4 (2017), 413-414

"Insgesamt ist das Buch ein wichtiger Beitrag für die Geschichte der Wissenschaft des Judentums."
Mihály Riszovannij in: Chilufim. Zeitschrift für Jüdische Kulturgeschichte 24 (2018), 125-128

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Wissenschaft des Judentums in Hungary: An Introduction Tamás Turán and Carsten Wilke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Testimonies
The Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest and Oriental Studies in Hungary Géza Komoróczy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
The Rabbinical Seminary and the War Years Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
Was R. Saadia Gaon’s Arabic Translation of the Pentateuch Meant for Muslims Too? Joshua Blau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	70
Elective Affinities
From Talmud Torah to Oriental Studies: Itineraries of Rabbinical Students in Hungary Carsten L. Wilke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
Scholarship and Patriotism: Research on the History of Hungarian Jewry and the Rabbinical Seminary of Hungary—the First Decades Gábor Schweitzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	99
Suspension Bridge of Confidence: Folklore Studies in Jewish-Hungarian Scholarship Vilmos Voigt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	108
Transnational Connections
Beyond the Classroom: The Enduring Relationship between Heinrich L. Fleischer and Ignaz Goldziher Ismar Schorsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
Connecting Centers of Wissenschaft des Judentums: David Kaufmann in Budapest, 1877–1899 Mirjam Thulin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
The International Context of Samuel Krauss’s Scholarship: Network Connections between East and West Catherine Hézser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
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Re-Orientalism
From Geiger to Goldziher: Historical Method and its Impact on the Conception of Islam Ottfried Fraisse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	203
Academic Religion: Goldziher as a Scholar and a Jew Tamás Turán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	223
From Bacher to Telegdi: The Lure of Iran in Jewish Studies Shaul Shaked Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	271
Untrodden Paths
Meir Friedmann–A Pioneering Scholar of Midrash Günter Stemberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	283
Adolf Büchler and the Historiography of Talmudic Judaism Isaiah M. Gafni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295
Georges Vajda’s Contribution to the Study of the Kabbalah Paul B. Fenton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	306
Political Confrontations
Hungarian Expectations and Jewish Self-Definitions, 1840–1914 Miklós Konrád Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
Defending the Dignity of Judaism: Hungarian Jewish Scholars on Christian Prejudice, Racial Antisemitism, and the Exclusion of Wissenschaft des Judentums, 1880–1914 Christian Wiese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
The Decades of an Ending: The Budapest Rabbinical Seminary after the Shoah András Kovács Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	373
Appendix
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	385
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	399
The Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	415

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November 21, 2016

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415

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110330731

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Jüdische Wissenschaft; Jüdisches Leben / 19. Jahrhundert; Ungarn

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Scholars in the field of Jewish Studies and the history of Hungary.

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